I think the way Leon moderates is likely the best. No matter what he does, some people will be upset, but I think the hands-off approach has worked well.
My biggest problem is that the lack of rules creates an environment where people can use the BST for widely differing purposes. Most of us list things for sale that we would like to sell at a reasonable price. I think the general sentiment would be that that is the purpose of the BST, and to use it in any other way is poor etiquette.
My biggest pet peeve with the BST is the people that use it like their own personal ebay museum, posting cards with ridiculously high prices, and then bumping them 10 times with price drops. Then, when the thread gets too long, they start a new thread for the same card. That seems like an abuse of the BST to me. If you want to put a crazy price on something, do it on ebay imo.
I think that make an offer listings are fine when it is tough to price an item, and when the seller doesn't do it all the time.
There was a recent post where a guy was trying to sell a SGC graded Cobb at well above VCP for the card, but wouldn't put a price. In my opinion that should be kept to a minimum. It makes it seem like the seller is fishing for someone who will pay way more than the card is worth (that's what it looks like to a lot of people, but I am not saying that is the seller's intention - I don't know). I don't think there's anything wrong with pricing a card well above VCP. Some cards present much nicer than the grade, and I've done it myself on this site before. But in a case like that where VCP is like $2000 and the seller wants $2500, I don't see why a price couldn't be posted.
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